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Today, RAI (Italian state television) began its marathon Bible-reading session, led off by Pope Benedict.  You can find the webcast here. The connection is spotty for me, but perhaps you will have better luck. I haven’t been able to find an archived video of the Pope’s part, but I’ll let you know when I do.…

Update:  Here’s the English text of the homily.   Today, the Synod of Bishops – “The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church” – began with a Mass at St. Paul-Outside-the-Walls. Vatican Radio report The Pope’s homily is not available yet in English – here it is in Italian – and…

Modern Life. Here’s what flows around mine. One son, over in Rome, a newly minted and certified teacher of English as a Foreign Language, waiting on word about a job in Vung Tau, Vietnam. Reading up on the job and the area, I’m sort of tempted to put in an application myself, to tell the…

The discussion of the post below is veering, quite naturally, to the subject of Roe and the place of legal restrictions on abortion in the pro-life movement. So, we might as well go ahead and go there. I have company drifting in over the next few hours, so I really am not in the proper…

As I’ve said before, I’m a big fan of BBC radio programs. Yes, yes, there’s no doubt that the news reporting is dependably full of reflexive anti-Israel and anti-American bias, but most of the cultural programming is just on a whole other level.  There’s a level of intelligence and respect for the audience that you…

So much, it’s making me sneeze. One of the points that is frequently raised by those who say they are opposed to abortion but who nonetheless give their support, advice and endorsement to candidates who are unequivocally and proudly supportive of unrestricted access to abortion (phew)… …goes something like this: You know, the anti-abortion movement…

I’d contracted with OSV to write a pamphlet on Benedict’s forthcoming third encyclical ages ago, when a summer ’08 release date was assumed. We’re still waiting, aren’t we? The word that’s come to me is that the encyclical is being “rewritten.” Just in the past day, the date given for the Ignatius edition of the…

I got absorbed in, er, the news yesterday and since it’s not something I feel qualified on which to blog, I basically forgot about my blog and waiting comments and such. Rectified. Remember the delicious feed, which is updated frequently during the day. Stuff I read and liked. Big weekend coming up: Katie’s debut in…

Today is the feast of St. Vincent de Paul – Here’s a great blog post with lots of links and resources Susan Stabile has a nice reflection Vincent looked at the faces of the poor and the marginalized and what he saw was the face of Christ. He completely took to heart Jesus’ teaching that what…

The Synod of Bishops is coming up – commencing in Rome on October 5. (The last Synod was on the topic of the Eucharist, in the fall of ’05) Here’s the Vatican webpage for the Synod, with all of the preparatory documents. And here is a good page that’s being published by Ascension Press  ScriptureSynod.com.…
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